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May 20, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

How does HNSW work?

Suppose we have a vector database with a billion items in it (the haystack). And suppose we are looking for K vectors, the needles which maximize some similarity function. (In the case of cosine si...

May 18, 2024 from Mr. Money Mustache

The Ultimate Life Coach

Almost  nineteen years into early retirement now, I’ve come to realize that the complete freedom of this lifestyle can be a double-edged sword. You’ve already heard me raving plenty about the upsid...

May 18, 2024 from Hugo’s Blog

Skip Discord Updates on Linux

If you use Discord on Linux, and installed via a .deb, you might have seen this annoying pop up every time you start Discord: This seems like Discord requires you to upgrade before you can start th...

May 16, 2024 from Home on A blog

DBT (Data Build Tool): Zero to Hero

Welcome to the first edition of “Andreas takes you on the ride while he learns how to do his job.” Today, we’re diving into dbt (Data Build Tool) to understand its core concepts, project structure,...

May 15, 2024 from R74n Newsletter

☀️ Sandboxels v1.9.5 - Update of the Summer OUT NOW 🌊

One of our favorite updates ever.

May 12, 2024 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Import Maps for Cross-team Collaboration

In large organizations, it takes many inputs across multiple teams to produce a single web page. Import maps aid in reducing the potential friction between teams by abstracting package names over r...

May 11, 2024 from Hugo’s Blog

No posts in 2023?

I didn’t write a single post on this blog in 2023. I don’t feel bad about it. A summary of the year: I helped plan a wedding with my fiancée.* (sidenote: She’s now my wife.) I invested more time in...

May 10, 2024 from Heitor's log

jq trickery

`jq` tricks that I learned over the years to parse JSONs.

May 09, 2024 from Remote Synthesis

Community is a Tamagotchi

Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.

May 09, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Website todo

A catalog of all the website improvements I hope to make on seirdy.one, but haven't gotten to yet (and some that I have).

May 08, 2024 from Gonçalo Valério

Are Redis ACL password protections weak?

Earlier this year, I decided to explore Redis functionality a bit more deeply than my typical use-cases would require. Mostly due to curiosity, but also to have better knowledge of this tool in my ...

May 06, 2024 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

How to change DPI when docking with XFCE and systemd

DPI change on docking with XFCE and systemd on Manjaro

May 05, 2024 from Londogard Blog

ZenML or ClearML? Which MLOps tool strikes best?

Making it as few words as possible. Tool Pro Con ClearML Simple & Everything “fits” Locked into ClearML, i.e. cannot use best tool for the job ZenML Composable & Extendable Multiple tools to get jo...

May 04, 2024 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

C++ development setup on Mac & VSCode (debugging, compilation, intellisense)

It's honestly surprising how frustrating it is to setup a clean C++ development environment on Mac. VSCode is the standard tool "IDE" of choice these days and C++ is no exception to the list of lan...

May 02, 2024 from R74n Newsletter

🎉 R74n Turns 7 - Community Art Gallery & More

The R74n.com website has gained another year, this time its seventh!

May 01, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ

Study of Historical Code

I’ve started studying a larger historical code base. Within this post, I want to summarize the sort of historical questions we might ask and notes on how to approach them. Objective My objectives f...

Apr 30, 2024 from Remote Synthesis

Navigating the Buzzwords of Frontend Development

A guide to commonly used jargon in the frontend and full-stack development world.

Apr 28, 2024 from Caffeinspiration

Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests

Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Ly...

Apr 27, 2024 from R74n Newsletter

🥘 NEW GAME: Make a dish in Infinite Chef 🆕

From the developer of Sandboxels comes a new in-browser cooking experience.

Apr 27, 2024 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

Disabling the borrow checker

How you can bypass borrow checking in your rust programs if you need to